Jan Koum
Jan Koum is considered the founder of the Watts firm father who jumped from poverty to the throne of the rich, the story of the life of a Ukrainian computer engineer
Who wrote the application Watts father and jumped him on the throne of technology.
Born com, who owns a 45% share of Watts August, according to Forbes in a small village outside Kiev, Ukraine, which is the only son of a housewife and director for construction projects work on the construction of schools and hospitals.
Com lived in a small house without hot water, no electricity, no phone, but today are eager to those simple life that made him persevering man.
At the age of 16, he took refuge com and his mother to the United States and lived in the city of Mountain View, Calif., To escape the anti-Semitic and troubling political environment, and received a small two-bedroom apartment thanks to government aid, but his father never seq.
Before heading to America and worked on his mother's stuffing his bags pens to avoid paying for school supplies in the United States. When he arrived and his mother worked babysitter and the work is to clean the floor of a grocery store to help make ends meet. When his mother was diagnosed with cancer, he received additional government subsidies.
Com troublemaker was a kid in school, but upon reaching the age of 18, showed interest in the world of technology and know his own computer science networks through lending books from used book stores. And then joined a group of pirates on the Internet via chat EFnet network, where he chatted with Shawn Fanning co-founder of the famous service Napster, one of the music services that can be accessed via the Internet.
Com then joined the University of San Jose State University and was working in the evening a guard at Ernst & Young, one of the largest professional companies in the world. A year later, ie in 1997, he obtained a position in Yahoo to lose the propaganda system of the company. In 2000, his mother died after suffering from cancer and his father had preceded it died in 1997.
Com felt distressed and unity but soon received support and the bond of his colleague at work Brian Acton, who was calling him to his house and out skiing together and play football and grew up among them a great friendship.
In September of 2007, com and Acton feet to work in the company Facebook, but their requests were rejected. Then in January 2009, bought com iPhone began with his friend in the thinking of launching a new application for a chat is free and the best of SMS text messaging service. They were working on development in their home and in cafes.
Launched a duo called "Watts August" sense "what's new" for the new service, which wrote to her success since its launch, after five years the number of participants reached 450 million participants and was worth about $ 6.8 billion.
Last week, Facebook has paid $ 12 billion in shares and $ 4 billion in the form of cash to buy Watts August, and will be awarded to the founders and staff $ 3 billion in the form of restricted securities will fall due over four years after the closing of the transaction at $ 19 billion.
In a tweet on his Twitter account com he said that Facebook refused employment in the ever Twitter and even rejected his request once, but succeeded in reaching them in his own way.
He stressed in his account that Facebook will keep the application Watts August like it was in the past and will not resort to adding ads and will make him just as it did with Instagram, which was bought by one billion dollars a separate service.
The Facebook deal with Watts August the most expensive deal driven technology company for the novice player, it exceeded the Skype deal, which was acquired by Microsoft B8.5 billion dollars in 2011.
It is noteworthy that Watts August receives about 450 million participants per month, compared with 241 million users of Twitter at the end of 2013.
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